How can I quit smoking?

[Whiskey Grey]

I've heard masturbation when you have a craving helps.

Beyond that, there are a few products that are designed to help you quit. Patches, inhalators, even some tablets. Depending on the country (and I guess states for the more federal nations), pharmacies may run smoking cessation programs to help people quit.

[Shark Bacon]

JRandom18

Shark Bacon

I've heard Chantix works really well if you don't get wild side effects. There's some code to get the first month free. But after that, it's expensive. But insurance will sometimes help with that kind of stuff, if you look into it.

Actually, insurance will usually help cover a lot of smoking-cessation tools. You should look into that stuff.

I heard being on Chantix gives you wild dreams.

Yeah, I've heard of a few really strange side effects, and some are really unpleasant. My parent's neighbor tried it and went full on psycho alcoholic. But I've had friends that used it and had none, and it worked really well for them.

[Kohlian]

I smoked for 9 years, I don't know how long you've been at it but it sounds like we're similar. I didn't just smoke to smoke, I just loved (and still love, regrettably) everything about smoking. I love how smoke feels going down my throat, the way the butt feels on my lips, and there is nothing like waking up in the morning and starting your day with one. Tried the patch, gum, my doctor prescribed me two different medicines, one that made me sick CONSTANTLY and the other that made my emotions completely out of whack.

I've just found the best thing you to do is go cold turkey. Be stronger than the cigarette and give try. And even if you fail, try again. It's going to take however many times it takes but eventually if you really, really want to quit you will quit.

[xI Beautifully me]

Every time you wanna smoke, think about this: Do you want to live or die? I'm sure we all know you want to live. If you ever find yourself with a cig in your hand, crush it with your feet. Or get a random stranger to throw it away for you or tell them to take it away from you. Smoking is no bueno.

[TlRA MlSU]

This is exactly why I don't smoke.

[MiameMiame]

Snapple Lizardd

Why do you want to stop?

Nicotine is itboth a stimulant and a relaxant.

It has significant performance enhancing effects, particularly in fine motor skills, attention, and memory. It' has significant effects in alerting and orienting attention, and episodic and working memory, response time, orienting attention, short-term episodic memory-accuracy, and working memory.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20414766
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20414766


It's an antidepressant. Even low doses of nicotine is found be an effective treatment of major depressive disorder in non-smokers.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2991594/



It is an effective drug for relieving or preventing a variety of neurological disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), ADD, Tourette’s, Alzheimer's disease, and Schizophrenia.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19184661
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ajp.152.3.453
http://discovermagazine.com/2014/march/13-nicotine-fix


Helps you loose weight by both decreasing appetite while raising metabolism.


I love the way it feels. The smoke swirling in my lungs and the feeling when I breath it out. The sensation when I breathe it out solely through my nose helps relieves sinuous pressure. Smoking is like being rewarded throughout the day. I like watching the smoke fill the air and swirl around. The overall sensations of smoking are all very pleasant. I love lighting, ashing, the smell, the ritual.


When I hit a pack a day I like to stop smoking for a few days to a couple weeks, not because I want to quit, but because it's expensive and your tolerance builds. Stopping lets you restart. Even when I go a couple weeks without smoking the cravings really aren't that bad. No worse then my cravings for junk food.


Smoking stopped my migraines. I just don't get them anymore. Coffee, booze, candy all tastes better too me.


I know there is a huge stigma around smoking these days. I honestly believe all the dangers of smoking are very overblown and exaggerated.


All the oldest living people were smokers.
Winnie Langley- Started smoking at 7, smoked longer than most people live. She lived to 103.
Here she is on her 100th b day.

Jeanne Louise Calment- smoked for 96 years. Lived to 122.

Wyatt Earp- also lived to 122. Sek Yi, who was also a martial arts expert, attributed his longevity and that of his 108-year-old wife Long Ouk, to smoking and the power of prayer.

Jose Aguinelo dos Santo- 126 years old and a long-time pack-a-day smoker,

Though it's absolutely gruesome and gross you should have a look at this.

[defloweredmind]

When I quit smoking it was a constant effort. You ever see these commercials?

It can be alot like that.
Deep breathing, taking up exercising, staying active, healthy snacking and drinking more water really helped me. There are different things people go through when it comes to "withdrawal" but that's a short-term issue. Nicotine should work it's way out of your body in about 7 days. It's 10% addiction and 90% psychological. How about is takes 30 days to make a habit and 3 days to break a habit. If that makes sense. I googled alot of helpful stuff. You may get some cold-like symptoms but you will get your sense of smell and taste back fairly quickly. It's a great motivator. I would sometimes look at pictures of smoker's lungs and stuff to keep me on track.

[Brothern]

Bad Quality Serena

I think you should try a medication or something. I don't know how effective they are. Every time someone in my family quits they're just like ''******** it'' and then they stop smoking cold turkey.

Reign True

I'm scared, honestly. And I have no one to talk to about this kinda s**t because my boyfriend smokes too, as well as half of my family.
help please.

Reign True, research into addiction shows that people who focus on HOW to quit are the ones who most often fail. So before you decide HOW to quit, you need to focus strongly on WHY you are quitting. If you cannot establish WHY you are quitting and then literally hammer than into your psyche like a mad person, it's going to be much harder for you to quit.

I've had friends who go and download the grossest picture of lung cancer they can find (the reason WHY they were quitting smoking) and carried that around with them. If they had a craving, they'd pull out the photo and verbally remind themselves why they were quitting.

You should also realize that at some point you're probably to have a moment of weakness and relapse. I believe I've read that most smokers who are able to quit have had 2-3 moments of relapse, but I don't think they took this as a failure / beat themselves up over it, but instead took it as a challenge and motivation to try harder to stop smoking.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16171657
http://www.sccp.sc.edu/sites/default/files/12354-REV SCORXE SUMMARY.pdf

[Minak0]

My mother quit using pumpkin seeds as a substitute. Thankfully, I was smart and never even started. A friend offered me. Instead of going into peer pressure, I said no, and he was like "Okay"


Outside of my mother, father, and grandmother, I don't think I know anyone else who has smoked and stopped. All my co-workers and I do mean all of them who tried and wanted to try quitting eventually went back.

One is currently using an e-cig in place. Another had his wife hold his money for him so he had none going to work, and that didn't stop it. Another wanted to do it for his kids, and failed that new years resolution in a week or two. The other, not sure if she was trying to quit or not.

[Sneezewort]

1. You need a reason to stop smoking. The people that I know who quit cold turkey with ease had great reasons. One had a baby on the way and stopped for her, the other stopped because we were about to start working somewhere that would give them nowhere to take a smoke break. Both went from a pack a day to zero with only one tab at the weekend.

2. Don't use e-cigs, they make it twice as hard to quit.

Have a good reason to quit, focus on it every time you get that itch.

[KDramaz]

Um not sure but you could maybe try and take a little stress away from your life. You can exercise, workout, socialize with others... there are many things to do in life. Do something that you enjoy doing to keep your mind off of smoking. It's going to be very difficult to quit but you can't give up if you really want to quit smoking.

[Viking Josh]

Just quit being a weak willed tool. I quit smoking in just two weeks by drinking lots of water. I had headaches and was irritable at first but after those two weeks I was fine.

[thehumanburrito]

MiameMiame

Snapple Lizardd

Why do you want to stop?

Nicotine is itboth a stimulant and a relaxant.

It has significant performance enhancing effects, particularly in fine motor skills, attention, and memory. It' has significant effects in alerting and orienting attention, and episodic and working memory, response time, orienting attention, short-term episodic memory-accuracy, and working memory.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20414766
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20414766


It's an antidepressant. Even low doses of nicotine is found be an effective treatment of major depressive disorder in non-smokers.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2991594/



It is an effective drug for relieving or preventing a variety of neurological disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), ADD, Tourette’s, Alzheimer's disease, and Schizophrenia.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19184661
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ajp.152.3.453
http://discovermagazine.com/2014/march/13-nicotine-fix


Helps you loose weight by both decreasing appetite while raising metabolism.


I love the way it feels. The smoke swirling in my lungs and the feeling when I breath it out. The sensation when I breathe it out solely through my nose helps relieves sinuous pressure. Smoking is like being rewarded throughout the day. I like watching the smoke fill the air and swirl around. The overall sensations of smoking are all very pleasant. I love lighting, ashing, the smell, the ritual.


When I hit a pack a day I like to stop smoking for a few days to a couple weeks, not because I want to quit, but because it's expensive and your tolerance builds. Stopping lets you restart. Even when I go a couple weeks without smoking the cravings really aren't that bad. No worse then my cravings for junk food.


Smoking stopped my migraines. I just don't get them anymore. Coffee, booze, candy all tastes better too me.


I know there is a huge stigma around smoking these days. I honestly believe all the dangers of smoking are very overblown and exaggerated.


All the oldest living people were smokers.
Winnie Langley- Started smoking at 7, smoked longer than most people live. She lived to 103.
Here she is on her 100th b day.

Jeanne Louise Calment- smoked for 96 years. Lived to 122.

Wyatt Earp- also lived to 122. Sek Yi, who was also a martial arts expert, attributed his longevity and that of his 108-year-old wife Long Ouk, to smoking and the power of prayer.

Jose Aguinelo dos Santo- 126 years old and a long-time pack-a-day smoker,

Though it's absolutely gruesome and gross you should have a look at this.

real tobacco/nicotine is pretty good , plus its not as addicting. The packaging from the industries are terrible with the chemicals they put in, like cyanide, ammonia, acetylene and added flavoring.

[MegaTurkey]

thehumanburrito

MiameMiame

Snapple Lizardd

Why do you want to stop?

Nicotine is itboth a stimulant and a relaxant.

It has significant performance enhancing effects, particularly in fine motor skills, attention, and memory. It' has significant effects in alerting and orienting attention, and episodic and working memory, response time, orienting attention, short-term episodic memory-accuracy, and working memory.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20414766
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20414766


It's an antidepressant. Even low doses of nicotine is found be an effective treatment of major depressive disorder in non-smokers.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2991594/



It is an effective drug for relieving or preventing a variety of neurological disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), ADD, Tourette’s, Alzheimer's disease, and Schizophrenia.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19184661
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ajp.152.3.453
http://discovermagazine.com/2014/march/13-nicotine-fix


Helps you loose weight by both decreasing appetite while raising metabolism.


I love the way it feels. The smoke swirling in my lungs and the feeling when I breath it out. The sensation when I breathe it out solely through my nose helps relieves sinuous pressure. Smoking is like being rewarded throughout the day. I like watching the smoke fill the air and swirl around. The overall sensations of smoking are all very pleasant. I love lighting, ashing, the smell, the ritual.


When I hit a pack a day I like to stop smoking for a few days to a couple weeks, not because I want to quit, but because it's expensive and your tolerance builds. Stopping lets you restart. Even when I go a couple weeks without smoking the cravings really aren't that bad. No worse then my cravings for junk food.


Smoking stopped my migraines. I just don't get them anymore. Coffee, booze, candy all tastes better too me.


I know there is a huge stigma around smoking these days. I honestly believe all the dangers of smoking are very overblown and exaggerated.


All the oldest living people were smokers.
Winnie Langley- Started smoking at 7, smoked longer than most people live. She lived to 103.
Here she is on her 100th b day.

Jeanne Louise Calment- smoked for 96 years. Lived to 122.

Wyatt Earp- also lived to 122. Sek Yi, who was also a martial arts expert, attributed his longevity and that of his 108-year-old wife Long Ouk, to smoking and the power of prayer.

Jose Aguinelo dos Santo- 126 years old and a long-time pack-a-day smoker,

Though it's absolutely gruesome and gross you should have a look at this.

real tobacco/nicotine is pretty good , plus its not as addicting. The packaging from the industries are terrible with the chemicals they put in, like cyanide, ammonia, acetylene and added flavoring.

No it's not at all, it still reduces lifespan, causes heart and vascular disease and causes cancer - not just lung cancer either - and is the primary cause of COPD which is a terminal illness. Smoking any amount whatsoever at any age is without a doubt one of the very worst things you can do to harm yourself and others around you and the evidence to support the dangers of smoking is pretty much the most extensive in medicine today. What you and the other post quoted have said is absolutely absurd by anyone's standards, I can't believe that in this day and age you can seriously type that s**t.

[thehumanburrito]

MegaTurkey

thehumanburrito

real tobacco/nicotine is pretty good , plus its not as addicting. The packaging from the industries are terrible with the chemicals they put in, like cyanide, ammonia, acetylene and added flavoring.

No it's not at all, it still reduces lifespan, causes heart and vascular disease and causes cancer - not just lung cancer either - and is the primary cause of COPD which is a terminal illness. Smoking any amount whatsoever at any age is without a doubt one of the very worst things you can do to harm yourself and others around you and the evidence to support the dangers of smoking is pretty much the most extensive in medicine today. What you and the other post quoted have said is absolutely absurd by anyone's standards, I can't believe that in this day and age you can seriously type that s**t.

first of all you need to chill.

I am not convincing anyone to smoke a pack a day. I don't smoke. I'm saying that the selling products of tobacco in america are dangerous to anyone's health.